FarmVille English Countryside Cheats and Tips: Working two farms

Sheep Breeding and rebuilding an entire farm are two of the most important and potentially complicated features in FarmVille's first expansion, the English Countryside. However, many might have forgotten one important fact: You'll now own two farms, and your old farm isn't necessarily going away. So, here are some pointers for how Zynga has resolved the issue with having two farms and how you'll have to handle it.

1. Only one farm will be "Active" at a time
We know, that's terribly confusing. How can one farm just go "inactive" while the other presses on? Would the crops I plant in FarmVille just grow and ripen as I work in EC? The answer is no. Zynga must have thought that keeping track of two farms at once would have been too much, so it forced the two games to be even further linked. The moment you log into the new expansion for the first time, your original farm will essentially freeze in time.

For instance, if you plant Strawberries in your old farm and then log right into your farm in EC, your Strawberries will not grow for as long as you're in that farm. In fact, even when you log out of your EC farm those Strawberries in your old farm will still not grow. It's not until you log into that farm again that the game's timers will start to tick again. This works to your advantage, really, as all timers will stop on the farm that's inactive including wither and pet hunger. To recap: Only the farm you most recently worked in will be active, meaning that wither timers will tick, animals will go hungry and timed Goals will run out.

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2. Friends can only visit "Active" farms
Knowing that one farm will be essentially on pause at all times, that also means that friends will not be able to visit that farm. Don't worry, farmers can still visit both farms, but it depends on which is active at the time. Thankfully, which farm you're actively working on will be displayed to yours friends on their friend bar. When you're working on your original farm, a home symbol will appear next to your name in your friends' friend bars, while a British flag will replace that when you're over in England. This gives players fair warning of what farm they're about to visit.

While this all might sound unnecessarily complicated, it will actually be more beneficial to you in the long run. This gives you even more control of when your crops wither. Say you're going away on vacation and you don't want your crops to wither in your EC farm, but your original farm happens to be empty. Just make the old farm active and it's almost as if you have a free Unwither Ring in England.

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How have you prepared for the English Countryside? How will you take advantage of these active and inactive farms?

FarmVille LE English Countryside Animals: Suffolk Horse, Devon Pig, Orange Ewe and more

Five new animals have officially launched in FarmVille this evening as part of the limited edition English Countryside theme. We brought you a sneak peek of two of these animals just this evening, proving our prediction that they would be launching "soon." They are the Suffolk Horse and the Suffolk Foal. Of course, you'll be able to purchase the Suffolk Horse from the store for 26 Farm Cash, while the foal can then be bred from a Suffolk Horse in the Horse Stable.

The Suffolk Horse can be purchased for either your Home Farm or your second farm in the English Countryside, as can the Devon Pig, which is available to purchase for 16 Farm Cash. Two other animals, the Orange and Yellow Ewes, are exclusive to the English Countryside, as they can be used for breeding. Both are available for 20 Farm Cash each.

The Suffolk Horse and Devon Pig will be in the store for the next two weeks, while the Orange and Yellow Ewes will be available to purchase for the next three weeks. Make sure to purchase them sooner, rather than later, if you'd like to start breeding Lambs in those two color families while you still can.

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Will you purchase either the Suffolk Horse or the Devon Pig? How about adding one of these two Ewes to your Sheep Pen?

FarmVille LE English Countryside Trees: English Elm & Wych Elm Tree

Two new trees have launched in FarmVille this evening, being placed in the current English Countryside limited edition item theme. One of these two trees, the Wych Elm Tree, should look familiar, as it started launching in Mystery Seedlings earlier this week.

If you'd rather not wait until you're lucky enough to receive a Wych Elm from a Mystery Seedling, you can purchase one outright from the store for 10 Farm Cash. The English Elm tree is also available to purchase for 5 Farm Cash, and placing it in an Orchard will give you another chance at spawning one of those Wych Elms for free.

Both of these trees can be placed on either your Home Farm or your English Countryside farm, but remember, if you'd like to have one of these trees on both farms, you'll need to purchase both. They'll only be available to purchase for the next two weeks, so shop fast if you do decide you'd like to have a pair on each farm.

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Will you purchase either of these trees for your farm, or have you already earned a Wych Elm from a Mystery Seedling?

FarmVille LE English Countryside Decorations: Tea Shop, Garden Bench, Tea Cup Ride & More

As part of tonight's FarmVille update, we've seen a whole set of new decorative items (two new buildings and seven new decorations, to be exact) in the English Countryside theme that can be placed on either your Home Farm or your English Countryside farm. Before we get into our detailed look at these items, remember, even though they can be placed on both of your farms, if you'd like to have them on both, you'll need to buy two, as you can't move them from one farm to another once placed.

That out of the way, you now have the option of purchasing two new buildings in the form of the English Restaurant and the Tea Shop. Both of these are Farm Cash-only items, with the Restaurant costing 15 Farm Cash and the Tea Shop being more expensive (and also slightly larger, in terms of size) at 25 Farm Cash.

The seven decorative items come mostly as those that are available to purchase for coins, rather than Farm Cash, so meet us behind the break to take a look at what's available. We'll start with the lone Farm Cash item, which is the Tea Cup Ride, costing 20 Farm Cash. Not to be mistaken for the Super Spin Ride that was released back in the Country Fair event way back in 2009, this item is an entirely new item to the game, although it does share the same basic design - that being an amusement park ride with spinning teacups that you'll find a Sheep, Chicken, and Duck riding in.

For the other six items, they range in price from 2,000 coins for the Spring Flowerbed to 150,000 coins for the Roses Garden. The Roses Garden may be an expensive item, but it's very detailed, covered with tons of flowers and vines, even if it doesn't take up very much space on your land. The other items are the Garden Bench, costing 7,000 coins, the Spring Flower Pot at 5,000 coins, a Tea Pot Topiary for 10,000 coins, and finally, a Tea Table costing 100,000 coins even.


Sure, some of these items might be expensive, but if you're going for a complete English Countryside theme, at least you have plenty of different items to choose from to make your own themed area perfect for you. These items will be available in the game for the next two weeks, so shop now while they're still available.

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Which of these many items is your favorite?